Tame Impala tacks on Belasco show

Great news for Tame Impala fans who haven’t already booked up every night of Halloween week: the Australian band, which has provided several head-spinning excursions into revamped psychedelic rock this year (including two weekends of Coachella), has tacked on another.

In addition to slots opening for the Flaming Lips at the Greek Theatre on Oct. 29 and Santa Barbara Bowl on Nov. 1, Kevin Parker and his group will play their own headlining set on Oct. 30 at the newly reactivated Belasco Theater in Los Angeles.

It’s among the first handful of shows at the long-dormant but renovated venue, which recently hosted New Zealand sensation Lorde and has more gigs coming up: Swedish duo Junip on Oct. 20, $25; two nights from firebrand M.I.A., Nov. 11-12, $35; and reggaeton stars Plan B on Nov. 21, $30. (An Oct. 24 show from the Sounds is sold out, though they play the night before at the Observatory in Santa Ana, $25.)

Tame Impala’s support act, by the way, will be Austin’s White Denim, another touted new outfit that appears at the Greek with the Lips and whose new album, Corsicana Lemonade, also arrives Oct. 29. Tickets, $30, go on sale Friday, Oct. 18, at 10 a.m.

Panic! at the Disco: Brendon Urie & Co., who just issued their fourth album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, sure are giving fans plenty of opportunities to see them live lately. Having already played Honda Center with Fall Out Boy and the Hollywood Bowl with Thirty Seconds to Mars in the past two months, the Vegas group will return on its own tour Feb. 16 for a gig at the Wiltern, with the Colourist opening.

Tickets, $35, are on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Also at the L.A. venue and on sale at that time: Amanda Miguel y Diego Verdaguer, Nov. 15, $33.50-$99.

The Pink Floyd Experience: Trip out with the noteworthy tribute when it comes to the Orpheum Theatre on March 21, $39.50-$49.50, on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

Local holiday cheer: House of Blues Anaheim has announced a couple of the Downtown Disney club’s annual yuletide bashes, starting with punk favorite the Vandals’ 18th Christmas Formal on Dec. 20, $16.50. That’s followed on Dec. 30 by Starpool’s Ska Luau III, also featuring Suburban Legends, Save the Swim Team, Codename: Rocky and more, $12.50. Both shows are on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

Blackberry Smoke: The country-rock quintet from Atlanta has revealed dates for its Fire in the Hole Tour, with stops at all three Southern California House of Blues joints: April 1 in San Diego ($27.50), April 2 in West Hollywood ($20) and April 3 at Anaheim ($15). All of those are on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

Primal Fear: The German quintet, one of the leaders of European power metal, will come to O.C. in spring, headlining May 15 at City National Grove of Anaheim. Tickets, $22 for general admission, $65 for VIP, go on sale Friday at noon.

The Mowgli’s: The increasingly popular L.A. ensemble, another bunch of neo-folkies in the manner of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, has booked a pair of local dates, including Dec. 13 in Santa Ana’s Constellation Room, $15, with Blondfire and Hunter Hunted. Also see them Dec. 11 at L.A.’s El Rey Theatre, $17, on sale Friday at 10 a.m. (One more at that spot: the White Panda, Dec. 7, $20-$45, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.)

Autolux: Given that these acclaimed experimentalists took a half-dozen years between their first and second albums, they aren’t quite overdue for something new just yet – their last effort (Transit Transit) only came out in 2010, after all. Still, maybe they will have something new to share when they play the Constellation Room on Nov. 20, $15. Also headed there: the Night Terrors of 1927, Nov. 14, $8; and the Silent Comedy, Dec. 4, $12.

Darkside: The buzzed-about Brooklyn duo, which just dropped its first electro foray, Psychic, will play both the Observatory in Santa Ana on Jan. 26, $20, and the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood the night before that, $25. Both shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

Also at the Fonda: local goofballs the Aquabats, the ska band that in a roundabout way gave rise to Yo Gabba Gabba!, playing Dec. 7, $19.50-$22, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.

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